ASTANA – Leora Shekufeh Eisenberg, a doctoral student at Harvard and a historian with a degree from Princeton University, has ...

Over 10 weeks, RFE/RL hosted discussions on Twitter Spaces on various issues that affect daily life in Central Asia. We looked at global issues -- from the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine ...

China's strategic relationship with Central Asia has grown expansively over the past decade, symbolized by both the 1996 founding of the "Shanghai Five," which in June 2001 became the Shanghai ...

The Pulse of Asia: a Journey in Central Asia illustrating the Geographic Basis of History. By Ellsworth Huntington. Pp. xxi + 416. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd.; Boston and New York ...

ASTANA — Investment ties among Central Asian countries continue to strengthen. By the end of the first half of 2024, intraregional accumulated investments in the region Asia grew by 40% over a year ...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are closing in on the conclusion of their long-running border dispute. What does the prospect mean ...

Local patronage networks that provide economic and social resources for cities and villages are found across Central Asia.

In 2024, Central Asia enjoyed economic growth and avoided conflicts despite the ongoing war in nearby Ukraine. The year was characterised by frequent meetings of the five presidents in the ...

Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, various analytical portals have published a significant number of materials arguing that Russia’s influence in Central Asia is declining. These narratives ...

Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is up against the AAP, led by Arvind Kejriwal, which runs New Delhi and has built a vast support base on its welfare policies and an anti-corruption movement ...

The Trump administration signals it will likely continue the B5+1 initiative started under the Biden administration to improve trade relations with Central Asia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...